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Centre focused on promoting rural industries, aims to take annual turnover to Rs 5 lk cr: Rajnath
NEW DELHI: Master artisans and craftsmen can contribute big time to the country’s economy and the central government’s aim is to take the rural industries’ annual turnover of about Rs 80,000 crore to Rs 5 lakh crore within the next two to three years, Union minister Rajnath Singh said on Sunday while inaugurating the 26th edition of ‘Hunar Haat’ here.
More than 600 artisans and craftsmen from over 31 states and Union Territories are participating in the Minority Affairs Ministry’s ‘Hunar Haat’ being held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on the theme of “Vocal for Local” from February 20 to March 1. The official inauguration, however, was held Sunday.
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Hunar Haat‘, a mega indigenous handicraft and culinary exhibition organised by the Minority Affairs Ministry, was inaugurated by Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers D.V. Sadananda Gowda at Maharaja’s College Grounds in city this morning. The expo will be on till Feb. 14 and entry is free.
This is the 25th Edition of the expo and is being organised in Mysuru for the first time. Over 125 stalls have been set up at Hunar Haat where more than 250 artisans and craftsmen including women artisans from across the country are participating.
Inaugurating the event, Sadananda Gowda said that Hunar Haat has become a successful mission to provide employment opportunities and national as well international markets for thousands of master artisans, craftsmen and culinary experts.
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The budget estimate for the Ministry of Minority Affairs in the financial year 2020-21 was Rs 5,029 crore and later the revised allocation was Rs 4,005 crore.
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New Delhi: The Minority Affairs Ministry was allocated Rs 4,810.77 crore in the 2021-22 Union Budget on Monday which is Rs 805.77 crore more than than the revised figures of the previous fiscal.
In the budget presented for 2021-22 by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, it is proposed to give Rs 4,810.77 crore to the Ministry of Minority Affairs.
The budget estimate for the Ministry of Minority Affairs in the financial year 2020-21 was Rs 5,029 crore and later the revised allocation was Rs 4,005 crore.
Shabnam Hashmi returns National Minority Rights Award over lynchings
Shabnam Hashmi returns National Minority Rights Award over lynchings
Noted Social Activist Shabnam Hashmi Returned The National Minority Rights Award On Tuesday, Protesting Against The Recent Mob Lynchings, The Latest Being That Of A Muslim Teenager Near The National Capital. PTI | Updated on: 27 Jun 2017, 08:51:18 PM
New Delhi:
Noted social activist Shabnam Hashmi returned the National Minority Rights Award on Tuesday, protesting against the recent mob lynchings, the latest being that of a Muslim teenager near the national capital.
Hashmi, who was conferred the award in 2008, said the National Commission for Minorities, which confers the award, has “lost all its credibility” and hit out at the chairperson of the body over his “condemnable statements”.